‘Secret society’ BNP should join the debate

ACCORDING to some sections of the media, BNP members “exploded with rage” when their names were published on the internet by one of their own disgruntled colleagues because it infringed their human rights.

ACCORDING to some sections of the media, BNP members “exploded with rage” when their names were published on the internet by one of their own disgruntled colleagues because it infringed their human rights. Yet this is a party which, in the near impossible event of it ever forming a government, would abolish the Human Rights Act. This suggests hypocrisy would then be considered a virtue.

But as their members squeal their protests at the publicity, one has to ask why they were granted anonymity in the first place.

Credible political parties do not insist on this because their views are not as noxious as those of the BNP to our mostly decent British society. Their members are usually proud to express their views and prepared to enter into open debate on them.

Yet here we have a party which insists on secret society status.

If the members of the BNP are proud of their aims, I suggest that they wear party badges so we can readily identify them and enter into civilised discussion about the future Britain they wish to create.